Example sentences of "to we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 2 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 3 | It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds , and left the world to darkness and to us each night . |
| 4 | However , such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals . |
| 5 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 6 | Was very kind to us one day , |
| 7 | We will then do a deal with the employer to release the trainee back to us one day per week for training . |
| 8 | He was in close proximity to us all day and was capable of making our lives hell . |
| 9 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 10 | This brief look at the context of current consumer credit regulation suggests to us two lessons which seem important to any consideration of consumer credit now . |
| 11 | But this poem seemed to us incontrovertible proof of our poetic twinship . |
| 12 | It turned out that much of Wood Walton would be inaccessible to us that day . |
| 13 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 14 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 15 | We are all familiar with the cliche ‘ Leaders are born and not made ’ , and whether this is true or not it does suggest to us that leadership is dependent upon an individual possessing certain characteristics . |
| 16 | And it did n't seem fair to us that might should be right . ’ |
| 17 | They make it clear to us that painting is a challenging process of continual decision-making — what to paint , how to apply the characteristics of the medium to the subject , how to retain the initial idea , or convey a particular mood . |
| 18 | It was made clear to us that Operation ‘ Brisket ’ for the road haulage dispute , ‘ Bittern ’ for the rapidly growing ambulance drivers ' dispute , and ‘ Nimrod ’ in the case of the water workers ' action , were all long on detailed planning , but short on how much could actually be done in a major dispute . |
| 19 | [ I ] t appears to us that unity of interest imports the existence of joint rights and obligations . |
| 20 | It seems to us that research may be needed to identify those non-EC countries compliance with whose laws would result in accounts in minimal form , in conjunction with any monitoring operation . ’ |
| 21 | Mr. Wadsworth submits to us that contempt of court is an offence of a criminal character , albeit it is a civil proceeding . |
| 22 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 23 | At the time the committee considered representations of the deposit plan , we had available to us revised projections based on the ninety one census , also information available from the ninety nine planning census of employment and based on a number of er representations made to me formally and informally , I revised the assumptions to er incorporate ninety one census data and to in fact stretch the assumptions er in terms of their general . |
| 24 | The sail was only too short , and after rounding Toward Point , we steamed slowly into Rothesay Bay , whose shipping and surroundings brought to us manifold reminders of city life : it was a strong contrast to the quiet of the Arran hills towering heavenward above the encircling wreaths of mist . |
| 25 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 26 | ‘ How many of those gentlemen will be handing out works to us next year ? ’ |
| 27 | I have appended a letter which you sent to us last year kindly offering CPRW £500 of B&I Travel Vouchers for our use in fund raising . |
| 28 | And she sits on the opposite to us last year . |
| 29 | said to us last night about the next girl to come in after she 's arrived to read the register . ’ |
| 30 | Do you know what happened to us last night ? ’ |